Episode Five: A culinary view into Huguenot history.
For Episode Five, Cordon Bleu Chef and Society member, Linda Gillette, visited with Elizabeth and they enjoyed a brief recap of their recent culinary workshop with Explore Charleston which featured the presentation of two delicious recipes with Huguenot history. Read more about this enjoyable event in our Happenings:
Linda Gillette and Elizabeth F. Gay at the Charleston Visitor’s Center presenting a workshop for Explore Charleston
Linda Gillette
GUEST
Linda Gillette attended La Varenne at The Greenbrier, and after retiring from her career, attended Le Cordon Bleu of Paris. She traded her business suits for a chef’s jacket and since 2000, she has been a food writer and television cooking show guest. She has written for The Greenville News, The Art of Fine Living, Talk Greenville, South Carolina Homes & Gardens, PBS Television Garden Smart, the Christian Science Monitor, Texas USA and other newspapers and magazines. Linda’s recipes have been featured in the Winston-Salem Journal, Savannah Now, The James Beard Magazine, Saveur Weekend and The Atlanta Journal.
Linda has recipes and features in the following cookbooks:Southern Soups & Stews, Cook & Tell, Someday You will Thank Me for This, Southern Pies, as well as her own cookbooks, Memories from Home and Seasoned in the Kitchen.
From 2000-2009, Linda was a culinary teacher and she cooked live on the air for the after-news show on Greenville-Spartanburg’s WSPA 7, as well as taped segments for Asheville’s 13 and Dove Broadcasting 16. Dove Broadcasting was a PBS contributor, so her guest spots were shown on PBS stations in Oklahoma, Oregon, and Colorado. When her cookbook went on the market in 2007, she was featured on Charleston’s channel 5 during the news. Even though she considers herself retired, she still spends time cooking, writing recipes, and blogging.
Linda is a member of The Huguenot Society of South Carolina and her primary Huguenot ancestor is Thomas Lenoir.
Elizabeth F. Gay
HOST
Elizabeth F. Gay is a thirty-year member of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina and serves as its Executive Director. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, she descends from French Huguenot immigrants Benjamin Marion and Thomas de Guerin. After a career in corporate communications, she retuned to Charleston in 2018 and brings her enjoyment of education through conversations to this podcast series as she visits with historians, authors and more.